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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
99 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 5
With the horrors of the Hartley Colliery catastrophe still fresh in the public mind, the intelligence that the lives of a number of men were in imminent peril in Low…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Martin Coryall, civil and mining engineer, and proprietor and operator of the Ebervale Colliery, in the Black Creek coal basin, has kindly allowed us to publish…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GENTLEMAN—In the February number of the "Annals" (No. 50), you have printed a communication from Professor M'Coy, of Melbourne, in which, under the head of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—Your remarks upon Australian copper mining in last week's Journal speak volumes in a few words. Figures and results are of greater value than speculations of an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The streets of Dunedin are still enlivened, if it may be so called, by the presence of crowds of people, who seem undetermined whether to proceed to the diggings, or to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There is great excitement in Moruya, in consequence of gold having been recently discovered between Monica and Bateman's Bay. It appears the discovery was made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir—Under the above title is a paragraph in the Yeoman, of the 11th October, in which my name is introduced in conjunction with a deduction respecting a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There are several bills before Parliament this session, for promoting the operations of coal companies. The easy terms on which valuable mineral lands may now be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday, aa extraordinary General Meeting of the shareholders, convened by the Directors, was held at the "Bird in Hand," Argyle-strcet, at 4 o'clock upon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE ROCKY RIVER.—The scarcity of water so long prevalent has compelled a number of the miners to leave the dry diggings for the Rocky River, properly so called…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →There can be no doubt but, that the coal from the Illawarra coast range is of a very suporior quality, both as ad article of household consumption, and as it respects steam…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another serious accident occurred at Una colliery, op Friday night, which has again .uspended all working operations for the present, and lias unfortunately been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Thursday last the Colloden steamer, brought up from Port Arthur, the penal settlement of the colony, some specimens of quartz very rich in gold. If these were actually…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A thunderstorm, last evening, has raised our creek six inches, so that the crushing will proceed more rapidly. All kinds of vegetation are thriving remarkably well up here. I saw…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Some time has elapsed since we were in a position to afford reliable information as to the condition and prospects of the Orange Copper Mines. From a personal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →We take, the following letter from the "Kiama Examiner" which proves incontestibly that coal, and good coal, too, is to be obtained within a very short distance of Kiama. Of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During the post fortnight, a slight adition has been made to our mining population several parties having arrived from other gold fields and commenced operations…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An imigrant's preconceived idea of the diggings is, I imagine, seldom realized— at all events mine was not; nor did my idea of the digger himself at nil coincide with the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A short time since Mr. J. B. Winship, the agent of the Australian. Agricultural and Coul Company in Now South Wales, paid a visit to South Australia for the…
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